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[Orgmode] Re: Proposed patch for customizable org-table-export
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Bernt Hansen |
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[Orgmode] Re: Proposed patch for customizable org-table-export |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:41:54 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Colin Williams" <address@hidden> writes:
> I've created the custom variable org-table-export-delimiter so that the user
> may customize the string that delimits the columns exported.
>
> I believe this is useful because in some areas (namely, my office) people
> insist on the files being in csv (comma separated values).
>
> I've also noticed (but haven't bothered fixing yet) that if a field contains
> the delimiter string (be it a tab or a comma), then the resulting exported
> file has misaligned columns. In csv format, this is remedied by surround
> the offending columns in double quotes. I'm not sure, but I believe tab
> separated format usually handles separator character disambiguation in a
> similar way.
>
> I've attached the patch for my change, but as this patch is the first thing
> I've contributed to org-mode, I'm still waiting on the paperwork from the
> gnu foundation. Also, I've actually never contributed a patch to a free
> project before, so I'm sorry if the patch file is incorrectly formatted.
My version of org-mode already exports in CSV format just fine.
I create a test file
,----[ x.org ]
| | Z | B | C | D |
| |-------+-------+-------+---------|
| | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| | 7,234 | 7,222 | 154.0 | 11 |
| | abc | def | ghi | jkl,lmn |
`----
M-x org-table-export
prompts for a filename (x.csv)
and a format orgtbl-to-csv
and I get this
,----[ x.csv ]
| Z,B,C,D
| 1,2,3,4
| "7,234","7,222",154.0,11
| abc,def,ghi,"jkl,lmn"
`----
I have the following settings in my .emacs since I export to CSV by
default
,----
| (setq org-table-export-default-format "orgtbl-to-csv")
`----
Org-mode version 6.10c (release_6.10c-20-g17c55f1 <- from git describe)
which is 20 commits after the release_6.10c tag on commit
17c55f1b10b2ad77b830bc057c722ffc99611337
^^^^^^^
This has been available for a long time I believe.
-Bernt